Nizar Khalfan

Nizar Khalfan

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Personal information
Date of birth	(1988-06-21) 21 June 1988
Place of birth	Mtwara, Tanzania
Height
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Young Africans SC
Number	7
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2005–2007	Mtibwa Sugar	57	(16)
2007	Al Tadamon	18	(1)
2008	Tadamon Sour	25	(2)
2008–2009	Moro United	21	(7)
2009–2010	Vancouver Whitecaps	26	(2)
2011	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	22	(1)
2012–	Young Africans SC	0	(0)
International career‡
2006–	Tanzania	43	(5)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23 November 2011 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 25 April 2015

Nizar Khalfan (born 21 June 1988) is a Tanzanian footballer who currently plays for Young Africans SC in the Tanzanian Premier League.

Career

Early career

Khalfan started playing football in his hometown of Mtwara with a youth team called Score FC. As a student Khalfan attended Ligula Primary School and Ocean Secondary School in Mtwara.

Club

Khalfan began his career with Mtibwa Sugar FC, before joined the Kuwaiti Premier League club Al Tadamon for the 2007–08 season. In January 2008 he left Al Tadamon and signed a contract with the Lebanese club Tadamon Sour.

After playing in the Tanzanian Premier League with Moro United he joined Canadian side Vancouver Whitecaps FC on 22 August 2009; he played nine games for the Caps in their successful 2009 season and signed a contract extension to play with the team in 2010. He scored his first goal for the Whitecaps on 12 June 2010 in a game against the Austin Aztex. On 9 February 2011 signed a new one-year contract for the 2011 Major League Soccer season.

Khalfan was waived by Vancouver on 23 November 2011, and was selected in the MLS Waiver Draft by Philadelphia Union. The Union released him three months later prior to the 2012 season.

International

Khalfan is an established member of the Tanzania national football team. He played in five of Tanzania's qualifying matches for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, scoring in the 4–1 victory over Mauritius on 6 September 2008. He also scored the game-winning goal in a 2–1 victory over Burkina Faso at the Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium in Dar-es-Salaam on 14 June 2007.

International goals

Current as of 11 November 2011.

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	2 September 2006	Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	Burkina Faso	2–1	2–1	2006 African Cup of Nations Qualifiers
2	9 December 2006	Benjamin Mkapa National Stadium, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	DR Congo	1–0	2–0	Friendly
3	2 June 2007	CCM Kirumba Stadium, Mwanza, Tanzania	Senegal	1–2	1–4	2006 African Cup of Nations Qualifiers
4	9 June 2008	Stade George V, Curepipe, Mauritius	Mauritius	1–2	1–4	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
5	13 January 2009	Mandela National Stadium, Kampala, Uganda	Burundi	2–2	3–2	2009 CECAFA Cup

See also

• List of current MLS players

External links

• MLS player profile
• Vancouver Whitecaps bio
• National Football Teams profile